History of a street · 1030 Schaerbeek

Rue Paul Hymans

In Dutch: Paul Hymansstraat

Rue Paul Hymans, in Schaerbeek, has 25 buildings on the Atlas map, for 29 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1914 to 1944, with 36% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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When the street was built

before 14000
1400 – 15990
1600 – 16990
1700 – 17990
1800 – 18490
1850 – 18790
1880 – 19130
1914 – 19449
1945 – 19694
1970 – 19898
1990 – 20094
since 20100

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

Today's buildings, grouped by the period when the Atlas map first shows building on their plot. Approximate reconstruction.

Where its name comes from

Kind of name: Commemorative name
Theme: Belgian figure

La rue rend hommage à Paul Hymans, homme politique et écrivain belge né à Ixelles en 186, décédé à Nice en 1941. Ministre à plusieurs reprises après 1900, il devint Ministre d'Etat en 1914 et représenta même la Belgique à la Société des Nations en 1920. (remark in French, as published)

Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.